She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1949, Pilcher's first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. Pilcher died on 6 February 2019, at the age of 94, following a stroke. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. įrom 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 15. Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England. Her parents were Helen ( née Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant. She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for Winter Solstice. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE ( née Scott 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000.
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